Women, Aging, and Art: A Crosscultural Anthology Hofrichter Frima Fox
Women, Aging, and Art: A Crosscultural Anthology Hofrichter Frima Fox The dry, wrinkled skin, crow's feet and rheumy eyes of old women can be seen universally; yet the actual images and their meaning…
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Women, Aging, and Art: A Crosscultural Anthology Hofrichter Frima Fox
The dry, wrinkled skin, crow's feet and rheumy eyes of old women can be seen universally; yet the actual images and their meaning differ widely, and the very absence of these old women in certain settings also reveals both a discomfort with the aged and an ease in their invisibility. The physical markers of aging, even implications of death or the nearness of death, make many of these images of old women, haunting; in the 16th and 17th centuries, they become emblems of anger and avarice, though portraits of known elderly women are often created with a sense of awe, and in some cases, authority.This book provides a frank examination of old women, from medieval "old wives" to contemporary reimaginations of shamans and witches and empowering self-portraits. This is true in writing about art and often in the art itself.
Works from medieval Europe to colonial-time Polynesia, present